Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to congress was a glorious display of total disregard for the rights of the Palestinian people. This man is an arrogant dictator that the world has not seen the likes of since Adolf Hitler. If you Notice, Netanyahu doesn’t have the Russian accent that is prevalent amongst the majority of Israelis, that’s because he lived a majority of his childhood in the United States. Even though his speech was full of lies and utter fabrications, I got to admit, he is a very good speech maker. Well let us delve into the speech.

Netanyahu began his speech by stating “I do see a lot of old friends here and I see a lot of new friends of Israel here as well. Republicans and Democrats alike.” and continued by saying “Israel has no better friend than America, and America has no better friend than Israel”. What He means is Israel has no other friend but America. Neither Netanyahu, or any other Israeli politician can go anywhere in Europe, Including England, for fear of being arrested for war crimes. As far as the second part goes, Israel is not Americas best friend, We were attacked on 911 because of our support of Israel. We are fighting terrorists because of Israel. Billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money is sent to Israel every year in the form of weapons, ammunition and cash To Israel to help them oppress the Palestinian people.

I know that I am a little late on Obama’s recent Middle East speech, that’s because I just watched it. There is a lot of buzz around this speech particularly from the religious right about the part of the

speech involving the Israel-palestine conflict. I heard al these right wingers talk about how Obama is Betraying Israel. How do they figure? What I got from the speech is that Obama is screwing Palestine just as much as every politician before him.

First of all, I don’t believe we should be supporting Israel period, just like we shouldn’t have helped create the Zionist state at the end of WWII. Sure Obama talks of a Palestinian state, but not one that has a chance of surviving. I love how our politicians always demands that Palestine acknowledge Israel’s right to exists, yet nobody says that Israel should acknowledge Palestine’s right to exist.

Obama says “Our friendship with Israel is rooted deep in shared History and values.” What, Like the fact that both nations were founded by white Europeans, who went to a land that wasn’t theirs, to kill the indigenous people to steal their land? He also goes on to say that we won’t stand for Israel to be singled out By the International community. Kind of like how The US singles out Iran, while Our Allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia get a license to kill? Even Iran doesn’t go into international waters and attack ships with Humanitarian aid, in violation of Geneva convention rules.

He goes on to state “Every state has the right to self-defense, and Israel must be allowed to defend themselves. ” Yet, his plan calls for a demilitarized Palestine.
Wait, a minute, didn’t he say every state has the right to defend themselves? Yet he calls for a Palestine that is not even allowed the means to defend its self . Israel’s history of “defending” itself is to attack other countries and settle its land, and if those countries truly defend themselves they are called terrorists. Israel doesn’t only occupy Palestinian land, they also occupy land that once belonged to Lebanon , Syria and Jordan. Wow, self-defence really seems to work to Israel’s advantage. every time Israel “defends” themselves, they acquire more land. So, basically when Obama says that every state has the right to self-defense, every one translates to Israel, and self-defense translates to Imperialist expansion.
There you have it folks, Obama has not done a damn thing to change our flawed foreign policy.

I’m madder than a mad cow. I’m mad mad mad mad mad. Oh yeah, did I mention that I am mad? The FDA, an agency that we all Know is bribed by the Big industrial farms, has had an Amish farmer arrested for selling raw milk across state lines. Since when has unpasteurized milk become an Illegal substance? No one got sick from the milk. Now all things natural have become off-limits.

This is another attempt by the FDA, and corporate farms to keep small farms from making a living. If it wasn’t for the Corporate farms lobbying(bribing) politicians, this would not be a legal issue. The government want complete control of the food supply so they can have complete control of us.It’s funny how Big farms can use growth hormones and steroids and all kinds of unhealthy stuff on their cows to help them profit more, but it is Illegal for a farmer to sell natural milk. We are losing our freedom.

by Christopher Thompson

In the United states, the gap between the haves and the have-nots is increasing. the people who do all the work have nothing,while the fat cats who sit on their buts doing nothing keep getting richer.The empire of the elite is built on the broken backs of the working class. How is this right? I seriously doubt that our founding fathers intended this country to be ran by the corporate elite.

A subject that most Americans do not Know of, is that of corporate personhood. So, what exactly is corporate personhood? The Idea of corporate personhood is the idea that a corporation is legally a person, and therefore deserves the same rights and privileges as citizens. This concept is backed by the united states government. Nowadays corporations have more rights than people do. This ideology led to the deregulation of the corporations during the bush administration, which was on of the major causes of our recent economic collapse.

Today we live in a world in which corporate interests are the main driving force of political policy. Any law or regulation designed to protect citizen or the environment will pass, but only if it doesn’t infringe the corporations’ “right” to profit. So if the politicians make the rules and corporations influence political policy, then one could conclude that corporations make the rules.

Here in the United States, citizens do not work for the politicians, the politicians work for the citizens and corporations are not citizens. We need to raise our voices and say “enough is enough”. Political policy should coincide with the needs of the people and not the greed of corporate America. When the government becomes corrupt, it is our right, if not our duty, to petition the government for a redress of grievances and there by influencing policy. As Gandhi said:

Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela has been constantly demonized by the United states government and media. Being labeled a dictator and a socialist, neither of wich are true. Most americans probably view him this way. Chavez was so arrogant as to bring down the ruling regime that was selling Venezuela out to the American oil companies and slaughtering the poor. The first dastardly deed that Chavez did was to take the land away from the 2 percent of the population and give it to the other 97 percent of the population. He also evenly distributed the profits gained by oil production, to the people. Hugo Chavez has also been called an enemy of democracy, well I guess if your idea of democracy is letting the United States rape your resources, then, yes he is.

With the control of Venezuela’s oil going to the people, they raised the price on oil exports. This of course pissed off the corporations and the U.S. politicians tha invested in these companies. As one politician said ” they do not have America’s interests in mind”. Well, why should they? Who are we to tell other countries what to do? Most of our operations in South America were about natural resources, and the installation of dictators to ensure the exploitation of those resources by American corporations. Chavez is hated, mostly because of the influence of corporations such as Exxon who feel like they have been ripped off by Mr. Chavez.

Before Hugo Chavez came into power, the inflation rate of Venezuela was 70 percent. The current rate for that country is 29 percent. Pretty good for an ” evil socialist dictator”. Here are more examples of the evils of this dictatorship:

– free college

– free health care

– housing opportunities for the poor

– drastic decrease of poverty.

God save us all from this menace! We should do whatever it takes them democracy(enslavement under U.S. corporations). The United States government hates Chavez because Venezuela, the largest oil producer in OPEC, won’t sell their oil at ridiculously low prices.

In 2002, funded by U.S. charity and Financial organizations, a group of wealthy Venezuelans staged a coup and kidnaped Chavez. They produced a phony letter from Chavez that said he was resigning. The two main sources of funding for the coup were the National Endowment Democracy(NED) and the International Monetary fund(IMF). Both of these organizations are regulated by the U.S. government and funded by tax money.

Roger Noriega, the U.S. assistant secretary of state at the time said “Just because it happened after we provided support to these groups, doesn’t mean it happened because we provided support to these groups”. Talk about double speak. The short-lived coup put Pedro Camorra, a prominent business man into power. They attempted to absolve the Venezuelan constitution and take back control of the land, which was now being used by farmers.This coup sought to undo all of the good that Chavez worked hard to achieve.

Why did America back the coup? Why are we always meddling in the affairs of countries of South america? this question had been answered long before by Richard Nixon who said “Nobody gives a shit about that place”. Sadly, for the most part that is true.So, when ever you think we are a kind and loving nation remember Nixon’s words. The united states around behaving like a mafia boss, and yet we wonder why we are disliked by most of the world. America’s foreign policy is corrupt, period. We need to stop putting our noses in everyone elses business.